Terri Hall

“How could we even think of selling off our infrastructure to foreign companies? Shame on us, shame on us for thinking about it. I will fight any Republican, any Democrat, anyone who wants to take our state from us.” – Texas State Representative Lois Kolkhorst
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Yet Perry defied all the recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission, the Management Audit, and the Restructure Council and picked a lobbyist and former Perry staffer, Phil Wilson, as the new Executive Director and the commissioner that’s the most like Ric Williamson, Ted Houghton, to be the new Chair of the Commission.
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US 281 in Bexar County tied a segment of I-35 in Ft. Worth for the top spot as the state’s most congested road using its Commuter Stress Index (CSI), which measures the most congested direction of each peak period. That means it ranks even higher than the parking lot known as I-35 in Austin!
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While Perry is staking his campaign on Texas being the top net jobs creator, Perry’s version of Texas being “Open for Business” isn’t about low taxes and less regulation as much as it is about doing business with foreign companies, including selling off Texas’ sovereign land and public assets to foreign creditors, an issue which Perry’s first television ad uses to take aim at President Obama.
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The days of playing fast and loose with credit and borrowing, and traffic and revenue projections are over. Toll projects, if they’re ever to get off the ground in this climate, had better have traffic projections paved with gold (which is getting harder and harder to do).
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Wolff has repeatedly promised to get 281 fixed without tolls as soon as money was available and called for an independent study of non-toll options (outside the biased toll authority’s study of options). Neither have come to fruition.
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